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AdS_3 Black Hole Entropy and the Spectral Flow on the Horizon

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-02-05 v1

Abstract

We consider the entropy problem of AdS_3 black holes using the conformal field theory at the horizon. We observe that the supersymmetry is enhanced at the horizon of massless AdS_3 black hole. This allows us to determine the vacuum of the modular invariant conformal field theory to be the NS-ground state (which corresponds to AdS_3 spacetime). This is smoothly related to the R-ground state (corresponding to massless black hole) by a spectral flow, which can be understood as a superconformal transformation.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9903058,
  title  = {AdS_3 Black Hole Entropy and the Spectral Flow on the Horizon},
  author = {Jin-Ho Cho and Soonkeon Nam},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9903058},
  year   = {2010}
}

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